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I've read the meta ii paper. I'll definitely have to dig into Pepsi (describing a system as a cardboard cutout is also just a pretty hilarious way to describe a system with that level of detail), and maru is on my list of things to check out. maru is pretty small which is exciting.

2026-06-29 15:29:08 UTC

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I've been down a Black and s7 rabbit hole for a little bit, so just figuring out the lay of the land. had to start drawing pictures to get through Looking Glass which is a good sign.

2026-06-29 03:32:15 UTC

@npub1z8r…mrq6 oh damn, I went from Heol -> A Lisp Through The Looking Glass. the paper is sick. some of the sentences are brain teasers in themselves, but the formalization is really neat.

2026-05-14 04:05:14 UTC

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bon voyage to pino and the rabbits!

2026-04-25 19:00:53 UTC

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_for_Windows_year_by_year
"I cannot figure out what I meant writing on Jul 3, 1987 that "' have an idea for a revolutionary program arranging my work and scientific experiments'... Oct 16, 1987, Fri, in 12 hours, I wrote my first SuperMemo in GW-BASIC (719 minutes of non-stop programming)."
badass. more 40-year software = more 100-year computers.

2026-03-05 18:36:07 UTC

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hell yeah. break a leg dev.

2026-02-20 00:15:12 UTC

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If you dig Bataille, you might be into Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc - often cited as a classic. To my eye, Pontecorvo and Dreyer are asking some similar questions about the boundaries of fiction on film, and... admittedly about how low you can shoot, which makes Welles a 'hold my drink'-level feat in both of those respects, ha.

2026-02-12 13:26:30 UTC

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casually drops the 'eating garlic soup with dan ingalls' post. glad you and rek had a good time!

2026-02-06 19:53:51 UTC

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pretty badass that people like some people so much we make our strongest materials appear as delicate as we can in their honor

2026-01-31 00:11:42 UTC

we are not doing so well on the taking *negative feedback* front. it's either "whatever", "woops, sorry", or "go fuck yourself". in your experience, what approach works best?

2026-01-29 23:46:55 UTC

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lol, I'm trying to turn my work's canva docs into html as we speak.

2026-01-29 17:57:59 UTC

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*gently traces fingers over edges*
tech deck theme park

2025-10-03 07:06:31 UTC

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Many great points, but especially @npub1yzf…5q34 :
"The fact that people mostly play with the syntax - the take there has to be that it shows how powerful and important syntax really is as a part of programming. That syntax - the part that you smoosh the crevices of your face and body onto when you are programming - it's the texture, it's the shoreline, it's the spiral staircase. There's so much to syntax. There's so much beauty and import to it. And esolangs heighten our realization and appreciate of that."
Found that to be such a beautiful bit of programming phenomenology and a sharp defense of the human in 'human-computer interaction'.
as usual, they cooked

2025-10-02 03:00:06 UTC

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yes, it’s… good (trying not to spoil, ha).
the whole shasavic project is 🤌

2025-10-02 02:54:03 UTC

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sh
my first encounter with caftaphata.
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/115/302/304/112/780/301/original/18dfd3731737f90d.jpeg

2025-09-26 20:33:38 UTC

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(T)his (S)ucks

2025-09-25 22:00:30 UTC

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great line

2025-08-18 05:38:52 UTC

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eyyo!

2025-08-03 00:58:22 UTC

is merv gonna drop discord cause I'll probably have to devote time to studying whatever arcana we choose to flock to if so

2025-07-25 20:36:34 UTC

i have that "all I hear on the radio is... radio googoo, radio gaga" song stuck in my head, except I don't know the words to that, so I've just been looping "googoo gaga" in my head all day

2025-07-25 16:55:01 UTC

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totally, I get that the MIT switch was a big deal - and yes - ultimately an unfortunate indicator of changing educational culture/politics, but it always had a tinge of entitlement. I'm not necessarily concerned for the future of MIT CS grads, ha. they'll be fine.

2025-07-25 16:33:07 UTC

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no, more so that the rumour is flatt, findler, and krishnamurthy are all trying to distance themselves from associating with felleisen because of his not-great social/political views. I think that discomfort has something to do with the way the HTDP folks have splintered into their own languages/directions. my comment wasn't really relevant to the article - sorry!

2025-07-25 16:23:02 UTC

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word on the street is that felleisen is not the vibe. the PLTScheme/HTDP crew have been trying to distance themselves for years.

2025-07-13 22:10:56 UTC

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54kb of easter eggs, but it's just @npub1z2c…laft 's renderings of cute eggs

2025-06-14 18:41:24 UTC

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awesome. thx!

2025-06-14 16:30:17 UTC

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I realize that I may also be implying that all keyboards should be $1000. That is an unintentional side effect.

2025-06-14 16:25:04 UTC

Is there anyone who makes an argument that like "yes, computing should be sustainable, but hardware sucks cause it's fragile"? Not like the 100-year computer thing, but like the 20-year button. Like HCI but for people who hate when shit breaks? I think there's an ethos amongst the tech-oriented that hardware should be modular and/or easily repairable. I think all switches should be rated for 10 million presses before they should be allowed to be sold. There's way too low of a standard for cheap components, I'm just not sure how to couch that in a perspective that doesn't somehow relate to my health/death OCD. I'd very much like to explore existing arguments around this because it's a little expensive to complain to my therapist about physical interfaces as failure points.

2025-06-11 21:03:58 UTC

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ha, this is absolutely not what I thought the other angle would be

2025-05-13 17:07:15 UTC

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yeah, those work really well. nice vibe!

2025-05-13 16:51:33 UTC

can never get crash samples not to sound corny. no one does crashes like clams

2025-04-30 02:48:51 UTC

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wow. what. every university has an ethics review board. wonder if that's being handed over too.

2025-04-14 17:03:50 UTC

I'm interested in learning to create something like this type of animation/visual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnuMjXeHrY
Basically like sliding between pseudo-3d(?) plates with text and shapes, etc.. I think the generic/corporate term for this sort of thing is 'explainer'?
I have a bunch of video editing experience, a little bit of mograph work, but no compositing/animation experience, is resolve/fusion capable of this sort of thing? would using fusion for this be too forced or workaround-y?
I'd like to continue using resolve, if possible, but open to non-Adobe suggestions if there's especially good tools. Paid is fine, just no subscriptions. Everything will end up in resolve so bonus points for any sort of integration.

2025-04-07 02:35:02 UTC

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I never understand how people write ARGs, such imagination. like world building with edge detection.

2025-03-26 16:44:18 UTC

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stoked on this. this juxtaposition is a such a beautiful irony tho…
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/114/229/728/624/262/627/original/c5fbc9ae2699bd30.jpeg

2025-03-22 18:17:58 UTC

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happy born day fam :tealheart:

2025-03-12 21:10:06 UTC

hell is so mundane
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/114/151/495/269/181/825/original/013babf3a37336b1.jpeg

2025-03-04 20:13:46 UTC

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*makes new rss list*: "pencil blogs"

2025-02-13 17:38:57 UTC

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i’ve had a clip of 3x5 notecards at my desk since I can remember. this and a restaurant expo rail to stick important week/month cards at eye level 🤌

2025-02-08 20:50:34 UTC

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Dusa looks really neat! Been enjoying watching neur-related work. Really interesting to see how it embeds in other programs so nicely.

2025-02-03 04:02:08 UTC

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Reassuring for sure. Definitely nice to have those external constraints. It’s been surprising to see which editors can even cope with 1mb+. Ha, I think the only definition of royally messing up IS hitting front page of HN.

2025-02-02 22:18:06 UTC

If I amass a MB or so of blog/wiki-oriented html every year, should I feel bad about, or attempt to mitigate the bandwidth and environmental concerns of potentially sending visitors to what would be a 5-20 MB page decades from now? Something feels off about that framing, like I’m somehow missing the point, or confused about what my concern is actually in reference to. I can’t imagine a lifetime of writing would be more than even a minute of 1080p video, so why the inner-termoil? Is 0 visitors to a fancy statically generated and optimized site better than a few visitors to a handwritten but slightly larger site?

2025-01-28 16:47:25 UTC

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pebble-uxn-neralie when

2025-01-01 18:51:53 UTC

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this looks great! first read of the year. Happy new year, Devine!

2024-12-31 08:28:40 UTC

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neat! very helpful comparison. it hadn’t occurred to me that only function names would remain when encoding algol-likes. are you aware of any visualizations/diagrams of stack-based languages?

2024-12-29 07:39:54 UTC

A good few code visualization projects seem wrapped up/sidetracked in unraveling the complexities of their algol-like host langauges. Concatenative and rewrite systems, on the other hand, are often so simple, I have a hard time even imagining what a useful visualization would be. VM debugger can be too opaque/indirect, intermediate term rewrites are cool, but maybe too transparent to provide heuristic perceptual data. Less of a one-is-better argument, and more of a 'I wonder what I'm looking for'. Like, I wonder how much of the visual PL/structure editor space is devoted to trying to derive legibility from languages that have some degree of counterintuition baked in.

2024-12-10 18:18:13 UTC

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okay neat! thx!

2024-12-10 18:14:05 UTC

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like is this the same way that uxn-orca takes advantage of the console for midi, or is porporo introducing additional logic that isn't just gui.

2024-12-10 18:12:24 UTC

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ya, thinking of bangs is helpful. okay I see. so is it porporo that handles that logic, or each vm is already setup that way, and porporo is just taking advantage of the built-in port functionality?

2024-12-10 18:06:08 UTC

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gotcha. so each box is an isolated vm until they are connected? and even when connected, nothing occurs between the two until the first writes to the device port? (i.e. there's no concept of "listening" openly, it just says "hey, I just had my device port written to and I listened")

2024-12-10 17:57:42 UTC

@npub1z8r…mrq6 when lines connect boxes in porporo, at a high level, what does that "do"?

2024-11-14 16:29:50 UTC

@npub1z8r…mrq6 i cannot stop listening to that sevdaliza track

2024-11-08 21:18:08 UTC

the FoC agentsheets episode is lining up perfectly with my failed attempts to scroll through the modal discord channel history. stop refreshing!!
cellpond. tote. rewriting is exciting!